Do you plan to analyse lots of genomes? Or few that are large? One or multiple species? Join us for the course on analysing data at scale! (and yes, it will involve a lot of k-mers!). With @katiejenike.bsky.social and others... @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @connectingscience.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who attended in-person and online our One-day meeting: David MacKay: Energy and Information on Friday. @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk An unedited live-stream is available to watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/unuuHyd...

🧬 We're hiring scientists! I'm building a new team at the Generative Biology Institute, Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, next to colleagues in AI, Robotics, and Plant Biology.

Great to present our work on MAVEs as part of www.ebi.ac.uk/perturbation... at #VariantEffect26 - always a very enjoyable meeting!

Meet evedesign: open-source AI, accessible protein design ✅Combine models for multiobjective optimization ✅Integrate experimental data ✅ Run on your own infrastructure 📄Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💻Code: github.com/evedesignbio 🌐Webserver: evedesign.bio Collaborate: [email protected]

Join us on the 27 March for our One-day meeting: David MacKay: Energy and Information. @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk 27 March 2026, 09:00 – 17:45 Details and booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Now published! www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Share insights on using multimodal biological frameworks at #BiologyAtScale26 🧬 Contribute towards multidisciplinary knowledge exchange, and bridge gaps across genetics, cell biology, and human health. 📅 29 June -1 July 2026 Submit an abstract by 20 April ➡️ bit.ly/4mYud02#BiologyAtScale26 #ComplexTraits 🧪

New preprint on technologies to scale up CRISPR screens. We use them to map 665,856 pairwise genetic perturbations and outline a path to comprehensive interaction mapping in human cells. We also introduce an approach for cloning lentiviral libraries with billions of elements.

Looking to start your lab in generative biology / AI? Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways! pls RT tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty

Somatic and germline mutational processes across the tree of life https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.28.691837v1

Are you interested in biodiversity genomics? Fantastic opportunity to join us as a Group Leader at the Tree of Life Programme, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. 👇 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...

New preprint from our lab, spearheaded by @maelledaunesse.bsky.social and in collaboration with Diego Villar! In which we ask, can we detect joint signatures suggestive of positive selection on transcriptomes and epigenomes?

A key step towards human genome synthesis. With thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social @mrclmb.bsky.social #SynHG doi.org/10.1126/scie...

please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Claudia Feng's Ph.D work is now out, co-led with @brittavelten.bsky.social and @steglelab.bsky.social . Large-scale CRISPRi perturbations in genetically heterogenous iPSC lines, with single cell readout - enjoy :)

⚠️New study: we mapped DNA-binding of topoisomerase TOP2B in cancer, uncovering surprising hotspots of DNA damage. TOP2B, normally essential for DNA stress relief, can act as a double-edged sword. co-led by @LiisUuskula @ChristianLee, out now @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]

Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab. We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung. The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper “Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics” is now live at Nature Genetics: rdcu.be/eRu7K popEVE (pop.evemodel.org) finds the needles in the haystacks of human genetic variation:

final week to apply for @sangerinstitute.bsky.social PhD programme (due Nov 27th) -- free to apply, open to anyone anywhere, and a superb training opportunity for students interested in genomic approaches applied to biodiversity, pathogens, vectors, and of course us pesky humans.

We are looking for a postdoc to join our team! If you're interested in translating a cutting edge genomics technology (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) to real-life applications in hematology, this is for you. We offer a unique working environment ON THE BEACH: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Our new preprint is online! Viruses, bacteria and parasites use effector proteins to evade immunity and rewire host cell pathways. Together with @AlexanderStark8, we wondered if we could systematically map what these effectors, regardless of their origin, do in human cells. 1/8

Major new direction in the lab: hacking human cell biology with pathogen effectors (eORFs) - amazing collaboration with @miketilapia.bsky.social lab. Huge congrats to first authors Tomas & He & all co-authors! Check out the pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us and these amazing speakers next March'26 at Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability - an international conference held at the Wellcome Genome campus near Cambridge UK. Abstracts deadline: December 1st, 2025 Register here - x.com/gallowaylabm...

Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!

Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

New paper on everyone’s favourite topic, QC! We show why you should do genotype-level QC on your WGS data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Very real quotes about this paper - “The most exciting, mind-blowing paper of the year!” “On a par with Fisher 1918” “I read it every night. Just so beautiful”

tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty GenGen is hiring group leaders! If you want to generate data at scale to train the next generation of AI models to make molecular biology predictive and programmable, we want to hear from you.

New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome. 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇

The "High-Content CRISPR Screening" conference will take place on March 18-19, 2026, in Vienna, Austria. Don’t forget to register and submit an abstract! Conference website: perturb2026.bio Meet the Speaker: @leopoldparts.bsky.social

TF-MAPS: fast high-resolution functional and allosteric mapping of DNA-binding proteins by @XianghuaLi2 Are Transcription Factors really 'undruggable'? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please RP! A 4-day synbio and tissue engineering conference #MASSIV to transform biology and medicine together. Couldn't list all amazing speakers, so please check out this 👉https://www.massivconference.com/ Poster due is Nov 7, but will be extended. With @stemcellnetwork.ca and JST.

🎉 New in #GENETICS: Functional Genomics & Systems Biology section! Highlighting cutting-edge studies on molecular networks, systems-level insights, and innovative methods. Read more: buff.ly/wWVZdrS%F0%9...

Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org & @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

We've been screening across many DNA construct structures with variable number/size of interesting regions - e.g. spacer, extension and barcode for prime editing. There wasn't a widely used tool to process these complex structured reads so I ended up developing github.com/allydunham/d....

Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share that this work together with @opentargets.org is now out at Nature Communications.

Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Genomics continues to revolutionise science. But there’s untapped potential for new discoveries through collaboration between genomics and the humanities, social sciences, bioethics and wider stakeholders.

Can you find therapeutic targets for cardiomyopathies using simple, clean genetics in a human cell line? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doomscrolling pause to chat CRISPR libraries! Preprint describes our new, data-driven approach to combine on-target and off-target predictions much more intelligently for *selecting* guides, which we use to develop our newest Cas9 knockout library, Jacquere. Thread: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Extremely proud to see this work led by @mihkeljesse.bsky.social now out on biorxiv!

I've reached 100 British springtail species! This was helped by a recent glasshouse sampling trip, where I added these 4 species. 3 are now in the pipeline to have reference-quality genomes sequenced for the first time, by the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. More info in the thread below! 🧵1/7

Monumental effort from @maxbillmann.bsky.social and colleagues, quantifying genetic interactions among 4 million human gene pairs. Lots of features associated with genetic interaction & GI degree conserved from yeast. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recruitment is now open for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral Programme. ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine experimental and computational approaches. www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos... 🧬🖥️🔬#postdocjob

We are hiring a scientist to lead our 'Build' team at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology. @alleninstitute.org Job posting below: alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs... Please reach out if you have any questions!

New paper from our lab on synthetic genome work in yeast is out - Iterative SCRaMbLE for Engineering Synthetic Genome Modules and Chromosomes. Exciting project led by Jane (Xinyu) Lu in our group, now online. t.co/0LuGwgAWlA